The match-fit penthouse apartment belonging to the former Ireland scrum half Peter Stringer boasts waterside surroundings and a roof terrace.
Peter Stringer is selling a penthouse apartment atop Harty’s Quay, a large and light-filled two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment that he bought in 2006.
It was not his first home.
He purchased that in 2000 at the age of just 23 after his first cap for Ireland.
Address: 102 The Mizen, Hartys Quay, Rochestown, Co. Cork, T12P738
Asking price: €495,000
Agent: Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty
Built in 2006 by McCarthy Developments, Stringer bought the penthouse off plans and made a couple of minor adjustments to it.
He marked post-training wind-downs in the living room where six-metre-high glazing washes the space in light.
Adjoining it is the dining area, where Stringer requested a wall of glass blocks to bring light into the hall.
It’s a clever and effective manoeuvre, like the many made on the pitch by the man who was capped for Ireland 98 times.
When the Munsterman retired aged 40, he had also garnered 350 pro club or provincial appearances combined for Munster, Saracens, Newcastle, Bath, Sale and Worcester.
The development features nine blocks comprising 175 units and looks across the water to Jacob’s Island, another McCarthy scheme.
Off the living room is an internal kitchen featuring high gloss black units and pale countertops.
There is a mezzanine level at the top of the spiral staircase.
The space is open to the living area below.
The principal bedroom also enjoys a six-metre-high window feature.
On the roof terrace, accessed via some steps from the mezzanine, Stringer marked post-match celebrations with a barbecue.
Stringer met his wife Debbie two years after buying this property, and they married in Marbella, Spain, in 2015.
Now parents to two sons, Noah, age 8 and Oscar, aged 5, the family live in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
One of nine blocks built on the site of a former boatyard, Harty’s Quay is bounded on three sides by water.
Number 102 The Mizen, which has a B2 Ber-rating and measures 108 square metres, is seeking €495,000 through agents Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty.
